Violence or injury to others or property by offender, penalty
Known as the Uniform Mandatory Disposition of Detainers Law
The act spans §§ 217–217 (166 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Crump v. Caspari (1997)
Most recently applied in United States v. Irons (February 2017)
Effective: 01 Jan 2017, 2 histories, see footnote; (L. 1982 H.B. 1196 § 74, A.L. 1989 H.B. 408, A.L. 1995 H.B. 424, A.L. 2014 S.B. 491)
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
1. No offender shall knowingly commit violence to an employee of the department or to another offender housed in a department correctional center. Violation of this subsection shall be a class B felony.
2. No offender shall knowingly damage any building or other property owned or operated by the department. Violation of this subsection shall be a class D felony.
Official source: Missouri Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Missouri statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.